MOSCOW, August 24. /TASS/. Participants in the 5th All-Russian Youth Environmental Forum-Festival "Arctic. The Ice Has Broken", which ran in Naryan-Mar on August 17-22, cleaned the Pechora River's coast, press service of the Clean Arctic public environmental project said.
"The cleanup mission was organized on the eve of the Pechora River Day, which traditionally is celebrated on the last Sunday in August. The river is playing a special role in life of the locals. It is a favorite place where they come to relax, plus the river is an important transport route, and a fishing center. Besides, it is along the Pechora that goods are transported to the region during the summer navigation period," the press service said.
The forum's participants had to remove mostly glass fragments which people had left on the sand. After the coastline was cleaned, the forum guests organized a friendly volleyball match on this site, and then launched kites into the sky.
"We've been looking for a location for a long time, because it's not so easy to find dirty beaches along the Pechora, there's almost no waste there. The beach is about one and a half kilometers long, and we wanted it to look even cleaner after we were there," the press service quoted the Clean Arctic project's leader Andrey Nagibin as saying.
